Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 17

Both the author and date of its original composition are unknown, but it is reasonably certain that it was well known in a dramatic form about the close of the fourteenth century.

Who acts: author, composition · What happens: be, know · To what, where: composition, dramatic form

This is a sentence of «Winning Buddha's smile», Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (author, composition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	CCONJ	_	3 author	cc:preconj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 author	det
3	author	author	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 unknown	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 date	cc
5	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 author	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 composition	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 composition	nmod:poss
8	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 composition	amod
9	composition	composition	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 date	nmod
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 unknown	cop
11	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 certain	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 certain	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 certain	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 certain	cop
16	reasonably	reasonably	ADV	_	17 certain	advmod
17	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 unknown	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 known	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 known	nsubj:pass
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 known	aux:pass
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 known	advmod
22	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 certain	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 form	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 form	det
25	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 form	amod
26	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 known	obl
27	about	about	ADP	_	29 close	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 close	det
29	close	close	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 form	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 century	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 century	det
32	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 century	amod
33	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 close	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 unknown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the author and date of date's original composition			unknown property	tree rules
2	is	present	composition			certain, reasonably property	tree rules
3	know	past · passive		composition	a dramatic form about the close of the fourteenth century	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Winning Buddha's smile», Project Gutenberg book 78208 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 17

The tree

Pragmatics

Winning Buddha's smile, Opening, sentence 17